noshelfcontrolll 's review for:

We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

3.75

emotional funny

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this was a really good book. the prose can take a bit to get sued to because of the child-like narration and the lack of punctuation, but it adds to the storytelling. does a country remain yours only if you stay in it? what do you gain or lose from leaving your home? what forms an identity? how do commercialization and capitalism contribute to colonialism?